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Subscriber only Queensland Health has issued urgent health advice to anyone who has been to a declared NSW exposure site and is currently in Queensland - they must quarantine at home immediately. For those who have returned from NSW, but have not been to a listed exposure site, should get tested if they develop any symptoms. Chief health officer Jeannette Young said it was crucial that anyone who had been to the exposure sites undertook quarantine at home. NSW Health has already made it clear that anyone who has been to any of those venues, should be quarantining, and not getting on flights, she said.
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The man from Sydney s eastern suburbs has not been overseas recently, and does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or health role, setting off alarms on how he contracted the virus in the community. Within two weeks, we ll know if the virus spread is growing or not, said Professor Raina MacIntyre, an expert in global biosecurity and infectious disease from the University of NSW. It is worrying because it s unknown where this man acquired this infection. Who did they get infected from? That s the real question of interest.
MacIntyre believes the man s infection will probably be traced back to hotel quarantine, but wonders how many people would have contracted the virus to link the two.
Queenslanders have been put on alert after NSW recorded a new local Covid case with no known link to other infections.
NSW Health revealed on Wednesday a man in his 50s from Sydney s eastern suburbs tested positive to the virus after visiting a spate of venues across the city.
Queensland Health have now ordered anyone in the Sunshine State who visited a Covid exposure site in NSW during the specified times to quarantine at home. NSW Health has already made it clear that anyone who has been to any of those venues, should be quarantining, and not getting on flights, Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned more locally-acquired Covid-19 cases are likely after a man from Sydney s east picked up the virus.
Ms Berejiklian on Wednesday said the man in his 50s has not recently travelled overseas, does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or a health role and has no idea where he caught the coronavirus.
He also has not recently travelled interstate.
The man s positive result was recorded on Wednesday morning and NSW Health believe he has been infectious since last Friday.
Ms Berejiklian on Wednesday said the man in his 50s has not recently travelled overseas, does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or a health role and has no idea where he caught the coronavirus